skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm finding it a bit hard to make sense of your comment.

I don't know of that "many vehicles that will do far over 55mpg on a fossil fuel powered engine."

And how is "higher mpg = higher carbon emissions"? Higher mpg means less gas per mile, leading to less emissions per mile. As for the claim that government "can easily control maximum mpg", really?

So either I'm not seeing it properly, or the comment is anything but "simple logic".
You could suggest that, but I think it's pretty obviously wrong. Waitresses and bartenders and community-college students have smart phones. They don't usually own luxury cars.
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If you are talking strictly about money, the majority have figured out how to trade their value for something other than an hourly wage/salary. You can only make so much money by trading your time for it.

Typical Engineer:
2000 work hours/year * $50/hour = 100k/Year

John Carmack:
1.7 million copies of Quake * $1 profit = 1.7 Million/Year

Jeff Dean:
# of Google shares * $756 = $?
German (Swiss German native), English and French. I'm actually learning French again, since I have forgotten nearly everything because I haven't used it in a long time (I have learned French before English). The funny thing is now I get some words practically "for free" thanks to my English vocabulary: strange->étrange, jealous->jaloux - the grammar still kills me, though.
Unless you're in the EU that is - PayPal does have banking regulations applied there.

Something I'm noticing is that most of the PayPal horror stories come from the USA. How much trouble do they cause to people across the pond?
This awesome, I remember being really frustrated when I started out at my Rails internship because there wasn't any comprehensive documentation for HTML stuff like I was used to with Java, C++, etc.
Is there no way to sign up for this without connecting it to a Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter or Google account? The signup form indicates that you can sign in with a site-specific account, but I can't find out how to create one.
A dead throwaway account posted this:

Paypal have had their share of bad customer experiences. However it is clear in the Paypal policies that trusts are not allowed to own accounts. If someone was ignorant to not notice that, I believe it is unfair to point fingers at Paypal.

I have to agree. I can forgive a random individual for not reading a ToS, but as a business? That's unforgivable. PayPal might be skeevy, but you can't fault them when they follow their own written and publicly available rules.
Can you write out files to binary-encoded images and save them to the Camera Roll? Or does that violate TOS?
Here is an older example. Apple used to use the popularity of their iPod to get people to use iTunes to buy music. They were very aggressive at preventing people from making compatible drivers. People would try to do so to make the iPod compatible with Linux only to have Apple slightly change the protocol every month with a new iPod OS release.

I don't know why their was no outcry over this.
What happens to my StarStar number if I cancel it?

If you have a StarStar number and then decide to cancel it, it will stop working at the end of your current billing period. It will then be returned to the pool of "available" numbers.

What happens to my StarStar number if I change carriers? Can I transfer or "port" it?

Your StarStar number cannot be transferred or "ported" from carrier to carrier the way your regular phone number can. When you change carriers your number will be returned to the pool of "available" StarStar numbers.

https://sprint.starstar.me/faq

Um, no thanks.
I am working on something, as well. I currently use a Linux server centrally and an Arduino for prototyping the various sensors I want.

One thing I'm starting on right now are door sensors. Anyone found/devised a small, battery-based wireless door sensor? Ideally, I'd like a year or more battery life.

I can't run wires to every door in the house, so I'm thinking of some small wireless sensor with a reed switch that sits in power off mode when the door is shut, but flips on when the door is open and wirelessly (Xbee?)sends a UID to the central controller.
You can customize the entire back-end from within a dashboard embedded in the web application. I think this is what separates it from a framework like Meteor. Given this simplified UI, it seems to be targeting front-end developers or designers.
Building Egalitarian to Grant Access, it's a post beta process to update a program to allow access on a variety of OS. 4sync works on Mac, Windows and Linux, with downloads for each. It's a term that came out of the BSD community, originally referring to being able to build something on several different UNIX variants, and possibly Solaris, but now generally means the above.

Nah, just kidding. it's probably a typo, but the poster's grammar isn't really relevant to the site they posted, is it?
The "input type=file" has been handled great on original iphone iOS using the iCab browser, and consistently since as well.

You can use that browser with any version of iOS you like. It was my go-to browser on both iPhone and iPad up until Safari in iOS 6 gained a few of iCab's features. I still use iCab on iPad, however, for the ad blocking.
Project Orion was only a waste of money in the short-term. Long-term nuclear pulse propulsion will probably be put to practical use. Potential Earth impacting asteroids are fairly easy to protect against, you spend a lot of effort cataloging them and then you find the ones that could hit Earth 50, 100, even a thousand years in the future and then you go and you nudge those asteroids just enough to put them onto a non-impacting course.

But there are also long period comets that come in from the oort cloud. We may never have the technology to fully catalog all those objects (out to thousands of AU up to a light-year distant from the Sun). Which means that even our very much more technologically advanced future selves will almost certainly still be faced with the potential problem of having to intercept and divert an Earth-impacting oort cloud comet that has wandered into the inner Solar System. And to do so not with a century of lead time but with only a few years. And, worse yet, to have to trudge out to the outer Solar System in the first place just to have a chance to divert the thing in time.

This calls for a vehicle with a stupendous amount of thrust and delta-V capability. Precisely what nuclear pulse propulsion excels at. More so, the "pulse units" can do double duty by being used to divert the comet (using thrust generated by ablation from stand-off explosions).

So ultimately research into nuclear pulse propulsion is likely to be key to preventing the destruction of human civilization on Earth.
Not really. As a consumer, I am perfectly fine with Apple making a lot of money as long as I get a high quality product with superior user experience. The way I look at it is that I am paying a premium for a much better product.
that's the current market value yes, i'm trying to estimate the fundamental value
"In practice humans do not match automation." Maybe this is a nitpicky argument, but to me this means one thing: when put head to head, humans do not do better than automated output. This is wrong for exactly the reason I said. In 99% of cases you start out with an unoptimized version, find the areas that need optimizing, and improve the automated output by hand. Thus in practice and in theory humans almost always beat automated output. The general trend of people working on higher level problems isn't because automation can do low level stuff better, it's because automation can do it well enough for most cases that we don't need a human to step in. Automation isn't doing better than what a human would do, but it is doing well enough that there's no need to go back and optimize it.
Is your market actually big? Or is it a fake market?
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The logo is not skeuomorphic.
Alas, many journalists will never know this and write about it, because they don't spend time learning C and UNIX (whereas they do spend time using learning and Apple products that are built with C and UNIX).

It's not because journalists don't spend their time learning C and UNIX — it's that they (and their readers) don't care.

It's like saying that Mark Zuckerburg shouldn't get so much credit for Facebook because without Rasmus Lerdorf (creator of PHP) it would have been impossible for him to build the site.

The number of people that care about Steve Jobs/iPhones/iPods/Facebook = a lot.

The number of people that care about Dennis Ritchie/C/UNIX/Rasmus Lerdorf = a much smaller number.

Being a genius pioneer in an industry oftentimes does not bring notoriety with it. Bringing a product/service to others not in that industry oftentimes does.
Awful names for sure. In Java and with Intellij IDEA for example, renmaing variables is a breeze, with a text editor much harder.
No. It is desirable that people contribute their answers to questions. It is undesirable for people to respond to those questions not by challenging the substance of the answer, but by questioning the respondent's standing to provide the answer. There is no "but, show us then". You have no status to demand that of anyone here.

I you have lots to say, for instance about modeling natural language as s-expressions, you too can write lots of long comments and blog posts, and we will enjoy reading them. Unlike the short, nasty one you wrote above.
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A lot of Western aviation qualifying authorities specify a maximum allowable mean time between failure (MTBF) of 1 per 100000 flight hours. I imagine most rocket engine designs would be more like one per hour! That said, they only have to operate for about ten minutes though before they are disposed of, in the case of expendable launch vehicles.

In Falcon 9's case, and totally from memory and probably incorrect and very approximate, we've had 4 launches, each has had 9 Merlin C engines on the first stage, the first stage burn time is 170s or about 3 minutes. There have been two failures - a non destructive engine shutdown on the previous ISS mission on the pad at T-very_little, and the rather more messy rapid disassembly failure of something near the engine or the engine itself on the most recent launch.

So, for this first stage engine the MTBF (remember this is all a bit silly and inaccurate and just for ballpark comparisons with the airline industry) the MTBF has been:

9(engines/launch)4(launches)0.05(3 min burns in hours)*0.5(2 failures) = 0.9, i.e. a MTBF of 55 minutes for Merlin 1C lower stage, vs most regulators requiring mtbf > 100000 hours on commercial jet airliner engines.

So there's a bit of a way to go yet!
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So if you want a fair test, and some people are going to feel threatened no matter what... how about the solution of trying to rattle everybody? :)
I don't see how the red text "Web Platform Docs is an open wiki that anyone can help improve. See the getting started guide[0] to learn more." in the alert box at the top of the page could be more clear.

[0]http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Getting_Started
First sentence: "Anyone can contribute to WPD."
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I completely agree, but they're still in the business of selling a product. If that product is defective, and they continually belittle customers, eventually they'll be making less money.

Even if all they care about is money, it's still in their best interest to care about the customer if they want to continue making that money.
This looks great, but I prefer writing code via punch card. Any tutorial or options for me? Not quite sure about this fandangled command line business.
There was no explosion: SpaceX CRS-1 Mission Update: October 8, 2012
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?&pid=38825

From SpaceX "Approximately one minute and 19 seconds into last night's launch, the Falcon 9 rocket detected an anomaly on one first stage engine. Initial data suggests that one of the rocket's nine Merlin engines, Engine 1, lost pressure suddenly and an engine shutdown command was issued immediately. We know the engine did not explode, because we continued to receive data from it. Our review indicates that the fairing that protects the engine from aerodynamic loads ruptured due to the engine pressure release, and that none of Falcon 9's other eight engines were impacted by this event."
> you can't fault them when they follow their own written and publicly available rules.

This makes sense only in the context of choice.

If your business revolves around selling on eBay, PayPal is the only viable choice.

If PayPal wrote that they own your firstborn in their TOS, and every professional seller on eBay was made aware of this fact, their market share would not change.

Anyone who has used PayPal for any sort of volume (thousands per day), hates PayPal with a passion that cannot be described. And they continue to use it. Because they have no choice.

So, yeah, it's perfectly fair to point fingers at PayPal when they continue to make these asinine changes. Because when it comes down to it, for the majority of their customers, it's either use them or go out of business.
Ah, I think I understand what is going on. I've never been in a situation like you describe but I have heard from friends and family about such work environments.

Here is my take on what causes the kind of behaviour you describe: The flipside of German teamwork culture is that it is very hard to restore a dysfunctional team back to how it "should be" once the trust between engineers/workers and managers is lost. After a few instances of people who tried to contribute getting burnt and a few seemingly random but destructive decisions by management, people go into "bunker mode". This means: Serious ass-covering and everybody just doing as they're told (the term for this last symptom is "Dienst nach Vorschrift"). For practical purposes, this is identical to a strict hierarchy, as you will have to go through official channels to get anything done.

For a engineering team or engineering department, this can cause long-term damage. People in Germany are much more reluctant to quit a safe job and search for another than people in the US, so the disgruntled workers will just stay there and perpetuate the bad situation.

There is actually a valuable lesson here for anybody that comes into a managerial position within a German company: In any large organization there is a team or two that has these kind of problems at any time. Hovever, if you get the feeling that this is the rule rather than the exception, the culture of that organization is dysfunctional and in nine cases out of ten that organization is also underperforming.
Ten minutes to implement, stops nearly all automated attacks that aren't specific to this site, much less user hostile, and far fewer accessibility issues.

Believable.
The explanation of what causes the effect is very poor on that page. Does anyone have a better one?
You're either a math major or an engineer. We can't do simple math anymore. Please give it to us in the form of an integral.

Also, there's the ambiguity of "inclusive or exclusive? And, which side?"

[1,9], (1,9], [1,9) or (1,9)?
Here's the latest statement from SpaceX:

SpaceX CRS-1 Mission Update: October 8, 2012
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?&pid=38825

"Approximately one minute and 19 seconds into last night's launch, the Falcon 9 rocket detected an anomaly on one first stage engine. Initial data suggests that one of the rocket's nine Merlin engines, Engine 1, lost pressure suddenly and an engine shutdown command was issued immediately. We know the engine did not explode, because we continued to receive data from it. Our review indicates that the fairing that protects the engine from aerodynamic loads ruptured due to the engine pressure release, and that none of Falcon 9's other eight engines were impacted by this event."

No explosion according to them.
I think google can tweak their search results. As soon this page has more content it will 'naturally' replace W3schools.
Is there a rational reason for this law to exist besides being created to keep the dealerships in business?
This; I wouldn't tie up 20% of my income in housing (unless I was making significantly less than 50k), much less in a car.
I think you should heed your own (quite excellent) advice. In this case the real issue is how to best structure code for readability, maintainability, and fewer errors. Things like naming conventions and module structure are the details by which we accomplish these higher goals. Don't get too hung up on doing things one way or the other -- focus on what you're trying to achieve.
54.5 mpg using US gallons is 65.5 mpg using imperial gallons, so it is harder than it sounds for those of us more used to imperial gallons.
A blended wing body and flying wing configuration have been flown. There are similarities to the saucer in that they use lifting body effects. They benefit from high lift-to-drag ratio.

However, the other handling qualities of these designs make them difficult to fly. Stability can be a real problem. I would guess that air handling problems were the issues that cancelled the saucer program. Perhaps the modern fly-by-wire computer control systems used today might make it easier to fly a saucer.
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... I know. That's why I'm suggesting it's better than Sprint's new thing.
Ipad Mini Coming in October Q4
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As an interesting aside, blood type is actually considered to be a predictor of a person's personality, temperament, etc in Japan - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_types_in_Japanese_culture
I don't know how do you come to conclusion that there was any kind of mechanical damage anywhere. There was most certainly none. The engine simply shut down, most probably because one of the many possible abort criteria happened, e.g. some of the controlled variables of engine, like pressure, flow, temperature of fluids/gases in many places, or turbopump RPM, etc. exited the permitted corridor of safety. It can be due to something as simple as a faulty sensor indicating a false reading, or the condition being too strict (both happened to SpaceX before). Then the engine was shut down, and the lower temp plume of the engine which being shut down appeared to you like 'smoke of explosion' on video.

I am in fact near certain that the engine remained mechanically fine after shutdown and nothing else exploded or was broken. They will figure this out for the next flight.
Because waiting on garbage collection is definitely what you'd want in a rocket.
The engine is designed to hold high pressures, but it ruptured, and then the rapidly expanding gasses tore off other parts of the engine. It didn't disintegrate, but that sure sounds like an explosion to me.
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CNET might not have tried hiring intelligent writers.
"Tim Berners-Lee - Mammal"

No seriously, TimBL should need no further title, given their audience ;)
There are several very important factors:

1. A lot of math teaching is terrible, full of teaching formulas and abstract concepts, instead of the why's and how those abstract concepts relate to real life. A former girlfriend of mine was amazed when I taught her to treat math as something conceptual, rather than memory-based -- that she almost never needed to memorize formulas, that if she understood their meaning, she could usually just derive them on the spot. Her grades suddenly skyrocketed. No teacher had ever explained that to her.

2. Math is hard because it is exact. Fuzzy thinking is tolerated, even encouraged, in literature, political science, etc., so people can slide by with a lot less talent. Math doesn't let you do that. So, it's "harder", and can take a lot more time to learn.

3. Concepts in math build upon each other much more rigorously than in many other disciplines. You can understand the basic concepts of postmodern literary criticism in just a few minutes, without even knowing about medieval criticism. But you can't understand the basic concepts of differential equations without a massive background in mathematical concepts up to that point.

So basically, in math there's a ton of stuff (similar to other disciplines) but it's all insanely exact (unlike many other disciplines) and most of the little bits depend on having a solid understanding of all the bits that come before it (unlike many other disciplines).
How about a "spontaneous self-initiated partial disassembly event"?

I watched the video and don't see why a burst of flames and debris would not be described as an explosion, other than marketing.
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That's a great textbook summary, now for applications:

You got an array of your friends, an array of people who upvoted this post and an array of people who replied to this post. Filter all your friends who upvoted and replied to this post.

Now, before you write the code, how fast/slow will it run? for 1,000 friends? 1,000,000? will the runtime grow extremely fast? why?

Here's a Redis command that intersects two keys - http://redis.io/commands/sinter - the complexity is "O(N*M) worst case where N is the cardinality of the smallest set and M is the number of sets." - do you understand why? do you understand when it will be fast and when will it be slow?
"Public records" means data generated by the government that are available to anyone. Drivers license registration, voter registration and participation, county auditor databases, arrest records, etc are all accessible to anyone (usually a nominal fee is involved, may also vary slightly by jurisdiction). People aren't "actively" creating these, it's a byproduct of government transparency and public oversight.
A patent case is a civil case so the plaintiff does not need to convince anyone "beyond a reasonable doubt." Instead, they only need to show that the preponderance of the evidence is in their favor. So all Apple had to do was convince a jury that Samsung was more likely to have violated their patents than to have not violated.
The method you've used is similar to ones that FOREX traders use to value traditional currencies, which would speak to its validity. A market-basket of goods is defined, and a relative exchange rate for two currencies is based on the price differences of the two market-baskets.

A potential issue with this analysis is that your market-basket only contains illegal items -- however, even if your final valuation isn't accurate, it suggests to me that there are likely other cross-market pricing inconsistencies. I assume those are what you're interested in finding.
Probably because there is a difference in perception between half of an amount and half of a number.
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As Groxx points out, yes, you need to sanitize input. It's pretty easy to return an error if the user input doesn't match a whitelisting regex. It can be as simple as /[a-z][a-z0-9]*/i

However, in a Lisp, eval typically works on lists, not on strings. In effect, behaving like a parametric SQL query: a quotation mark or close paren or whatever in the string would be harmless.
And Never let someone tell you that you're 'junior' and they know better. Rules were made to be broken.
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Samsung has the right to shoot themselves in the foot and no judge will take their right away from them.
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